A/N: hey guys, so I'm not dead. YAY! Most of you thought htat I was dead, and wait! Before you angrily type out "but where have you been then!? And what about all your other stories!?" Well all I have ti say to that is that I will post at my own time. Live with it. But I'm here now! And hats all that matters right?"

POV: Ruby Rose.

"I can't believe I'm gonna give the cloak to her." I thought. We ascended the hill that led to the cliff just at the end of the forest behind my home. The one that led to my mother's grave.

"Ruby where are we going?" Weiss asks.

"We are going to a cliff Weiss. A very special cliff." The cliff was special. My mother died there. And was buried there. I figured that this was my mom's cloak so I should give it to her in front of my mom. "It's in about ten feet. Just bear with me. Please." I reach my hand out for her's.

"Of course." Weiss says, slipping her cold, white hand into mine. The coldness of her hands doesn't bother me so much anymore. It never did. It took about ten minutes to reach the grave from where we were at the time.

"We're here." I say and let go of Weiss' hand. She turns quickly to look at me.

"Where is here Ruby?" she asks, very confused by now.

"I wanted you to meet the previous owner of what I am about to give you." I say, earning a confused look from the white themed heiress. I gesture to the single grave stone in the field of dead grass. Just passed the tree line. "Weiss, this is my mom. Mom, this is my girlfriend, Weiss Schnee."

She continues to stare at me. That's when I extend the box in my hand to Weiss. "Ruby, this was your mother's? And your mom is dead? I never knew. That's why you were so sad when you came home that night. I- I'm so sorry Ruby."

She puts her hand to my shoulder. I turn to look at my mother's grave. "Hey Mom, I hope you don't mind me giving this to Weiss. I know you loved it but that's how much I love her. I know it's early to say, but I really do. please Weiss, open the box."

She begins to tear at the paper around it. The sun is setting in the background, casting its still lingering orange yellow light on the cliff where we stand and I feel like I have done this before. But I know I haven't. I've seen this sunset before. I've been here too many times but it feels like i've brought Weiss here before. I watch as she strips the last of the paper and opens the box. Putting a hand to her mouth.

"This was your mom's?" She asks as she takes it out of the box. "it's absolutely beautiful. I'm blown away. There are no words for how amazing this looks. Thank you so much Ruby and…" She trails off

"Summer, Summer Rose."

"Summer." She says finishing her sentence.

"Well don't just stare at it, try it on." I say. She kneels down and places the box gently on the ground. She reaches in and pulls my mother's beautiful white cloak out of the slings it around her shoulders, enveloping her already white frame in the curtain of snow that was my mother's cloak. The only visible color is the red from the inside of the garment. I reach forward and show her how to secure the cloak and hood to her dress without tearing it.

"Ruby, I- I don't know how to thank you for this. I-"

"You don't have to, Weiss, it's a gift. They are meant to blow the receiver away."

She blushes slightly. "R-Ruby, I l-lo-love y-y, DAMN IT. Why can't I ever say this? Ruby Rose I love you. There I said it."

"I love you too, Princess. Now, let's go. I love visiting mom but I get all sad and such if I stay too long."

"Didn't you say we had one other place to go tonight?"

"I do, why do you think we have over night bags?"

"Oh, right. That is correct. I was just testing you."

I roll my eyes. "Sure you were. Come on the hotel awaits." Her eyes grow two sizes at that.

"Hotel? We're going to a hotel, that was the plan?" She asks.

"Well I would like to have at least one night with just me and my girlfriend. Is that wrong?"

"Well no, not really. But why a hotel? Yang and Blake give us enough space."

"Yes but how much love do you think an over protective sister will allow before she snaps Weiss?" Her face changes from thought full to a large wide frown.

"I guess I see your point." She says.

"That's why I have a monthly room for rent at the Vale Grand Hotel. The penthouse actually."

"Ruby, how do you afford these things?"

"Oh this? No this was a gift from my uncle Qrow years ago. I just never used it."

She face palms. "Only your family." she sighs. "Okay Ruby, let's go."

The taxi stops at the front of the hotel just as the sun finishes setting. I get out and hold the door for Weiss. When she steps out she tries to pay the driver but I stop her. "Not on your birthday." I hand the drive a one hundred lien card, which is far more than we needed, and wave him off.

I approach the door only to be stopped by a bellhop. She stands in front of me, her green hair bouncing all over the place. She has a piercing through her lip, and her uniform si roughed up, like she just got out of a fight. Her emerald colored eyes glare into mine. "Ruby? What are you doing here?"

"I'm sorry, do I know you?" I say. "What is Jade doing here of all places!?"

"I guess not, sorry, your name and face are legendary around here. 'The girl who owns the penthouse for one week of every month'"

"Speaking of which, I'm here for the night, I need my key." I know this routine too well. She's gonna hand me my key with a note that says 'meet me on the roof' and I'll have to show up. Well I'm not going too. "And make sure it's just the key this time. Last time I was here they gave me this pesky paper that I just don't want." "Hopefully Jade gets the hint."

"Yes, I understand Miss Rose. it'll only be a moment." Then she disappears.

"What was that all about?" Weiss asks me. And I can tell she will want an explanation.

POV: Weiss Schnee.

"Okay Ruby, start talking and don't stop until I know everything to do with whatever that scene in the lobby was." I say, slightly irritated. I didn't I even take a single second to look around but if I had I would have seen the most lavish furniture and queen sized mattress that I could have seen. Even better than what I have in my room at the mansion.

"Okay, but you have to promise not to be at all angry with me in any way. And know that for the last two years trying to get away from this life."

"What life?" "Ruby, I promise not to get angry. Now please tell me."

"Well, umm. I don't know if I should tell you about just this or start from the beginning." She says as she sits down. I take the chance and pull a chair in front of her and sit down, facing the girl I love. she reaches out for my hands. I place them inside hers and notice a tear escape her eye. "So I'll start from the beginning. Right after my mom died I had problems fitting in. I started to get in fights, most of which I started. I didn't like my one. Especially Jonathan Cobalt. Whom you saw me fight earlier today. When my mom was buried I vowed I would kill him for taking her." A few more tears slip down her cheek. I remove my right hand and wipe the tears from her eyes. She reaches up and grasps my hand and keeps it up against her cheek.

"Without my mom money was tight cause she couldn't do her Huntress work. So I decided I would do it. Once I turned ten I became an information grifter. the job was easy, 'Hey bitch, carry this information to this spot to get his money and bring it back." Do good and you get paid but one day…"

POV: NONE

Six years ago.

Ten year old ruby ran straight to the building she was supposed to make her third drop of the day. She wasn't stupid and knew she was being underpaid but she thought she was helping her family. So she pressed on. When she arrived at the building she immediately runs to the first possible corner, covered by her hood. She had to learn things she never wanted. She had become a superb fighter. And there was more than once that she had to beat the money out of the other party.

But this night was not that case. When the blonde haired, busty beauty stepped out of the shadows, Ruby froze, obviously the other party didn't know that Ruby was the one here. Otherwise she would have flipped. "What is Yang doing here?" She thought to herself. "E-Excuse me Miss. Are you the contact?" Ruby asked with her voice disguised on.

"That depends on what you have. I might be." Yang said, her cheery voice ringing out in the dead warehouse.

Young Red looks down at the papers in her hands. They were fake registration forms for the PIT. A vicious fighting arena for some of the most ruthless fighters to ever fight legally. And they are barely legal. "Why would Yang want these?" Ruby thought to herself. "Do you have the required amount of lien?"

"Well, this is the last of my personal savings. It's all I have but I can make more for my family this way. My little sister does all she can but, I don't want her to have to do what she does. Whatever it is. I don't like how she comes home every day dead tired. She isn't herself anymore. It's my turn."

"Sounds like your sister is a very lucky person. Let's just make the exchange." Ruby reaches the papers out to Yang, who takes them from her. "Now give me my money and I'll be on my way."

Yang holds four hundred lien's worth of cards. Ruby snags them up and turns to leave without another glance toward her blond headed sister. But that's when things changed for the better. She was clubbed over the head from behind and knocked out.

POV: Weiss Schnee.

"Who got you? why did you get hit?" I could tell that I shouldn't push too hard. This must be hard for her to tell me. She is on the verge of tears at this point. I wrap my arms around her, offering the only support that I am capable of. "Please Ruby, you can stop, you don't have to tell me anymore. Just stop."

"No Weiss. you wanted to know. Plus, I'm almost done with the story anyway…"

POV: No One.

Five years ago.

Ruby woke up. She remembered making the drop to her sister then, nothing. It had all gone black. "Where am I?" She asked herself. She wasn't chained, bound, or anything of the sort. She sat at a table, with a large steel door being the only thing to stand out against the whitewashed walled of wherever she was so it wasn't a kidnaping. She still had all her cloths, so it wasn't a kidnapping or a rape. so what was she doing here

"Maybe I can answer your question for you." A voice says from the either side of the steel door. "Not very soundproof is it?" Ruby thought to herself. The door swung open to reveal a tall man dressed mostly in black and wearing glasses. He had silver hair and despite being inside, he wore a green scarf. He carried a cane in one hand and a tray with cookies and a mug of something or another in the other. "My name is Ozpin. I run a school called Beacon. And your name is Ruby Rose, well known street broder. Seems like you have broken the law more times than anyone your age should, tell me, Dear Child, what causes this to be the case?"

"Why should you care?" Ruby asks, unwilling to trust Ozpin. "It's not like you can help any. No one but me can, so just go away and leave me be. Or call the cops already and get it over with."

"Dear Child, I do not intend to call the Police." Ozpin says, his voice softening slightly. "Cookies?" He asks as he places the tray on the table and takes the mug in his other hand. Leaning his cane against the table he sits in the chair across from Young Red. "Please Ruby, tell me what caused this and I will help you. I promise. Hey, I'll even let you go to my school, just like your mother and father did."

"My mom went to your school?" Ruby asks with a growing interest being shown in her eyes.

"Yes. She did. And you could two. But only if you tell me what's going on."

"Okay. Ill tell you." Ruby said as she sighed, resigning herself to defeat. "It's not as complex as it sounds. it's really rather simple. When my mom died, we had started to run out of money. We had to scrounge for food. Yang and Dad did all they could, but it wasn't enough. So I started to do what I could. which is what led me here today. That's it. Pure and simple."

"Wow. That is something that should not happen too someone like you. So what if Ii gave you a check of one thousand lien every two weeks. Would you like that?" Ozpin asks Ruby.

"Yes sir, I would. But I don't want to drain you too much." Ruby said.

"My dear Ruby, you won't drain me. So here, I'll make it two thousand, and the other thousand every check want you to put aside to use as a personal savings, okay?"

"Mr, I- I don't know what to say. Th-thank you." Ruby says.

POV: Weiss Schnee.

"So that's why you, and now I, have all the money that we do. Ozpin." I say. I had never imagined that Ruby had these problems. She never lets it show. "But Ruby, why tell me? How many others know?"

"Just you, me, and Ozpin." Ruby says. But then her face lights up with an idea. "Well at least she's smiling." I thought. "Hey Weiss?"

"What is it?" I ask, the curiosity in my tone very apparent.

"How opposed are you too…"